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5700X3D and AM4 pricing

Where they fully functioning silicon or did they have some defects? Why would they cut off several cores? Maybe to fulfill orders or something? *
* You could unlock Athlons to Phenoms? Wow that must've been awesome.
 
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ooStevo said:
Where they fully functioning silicon or did they have some defects? Why would they cut off several cores? Maybe to fulfill orders or something? *
* You could unlock Athlons to Phenoms? Wow that must've been awesome.
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Sometimes the locked cores worked fine and other times either not at all or very unstable, so was basically a lottery... my guess is that the "working" ones just failed to meet the required voltage/frequency curve of the Phenom II X4 SKU's and so were disabled by firmware. Or maybe there were a couple fully functional dies among some dud wafers. :p

I think only the Deneb core based Athlon II's could unlock.
 
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